Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-09-11
OHIO POLITICS.
Governor Foraker Opens the Republican Ball
at Caldwell.
The USUAL CAMPAIGN THUNDER.
The Record Of the Two Great Parties
in the State Compared.
NATIONAL POLITICS DISCUSSED.

CALDWELL, o., September 10.-The
opening Of the campaign for the Republi-
cans at this place to-day brought out a
great throng of people. Governor Foraker,
who was to make the principal speech,
reached the town before noon and was given
q rousing welcome by an enthusiastic as
semblage. The Governor delivered a long
address, which was to considerable ex-
tent an answer to the speech of his COM
petitor, Mr.. Powell.
He referred in caustic terms to the cleo
ton frauds during the previons admins
tration in Columbus and Cincinnati, and
to the election of Senator Payne, showing
the tendency of that administration to
methods that were hurtful to the State, and
claimed that under this administration
some of the perpetrators of these frauds
have been punished and elections laws
been passed which render their repetition
well nigh impossible. Continuing upon
State affairs he noted the establishment OF
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS HOME
as an instance of fair dealing with the de-
serving class Of the soldiers of the late
war.
Turning to national politics, which he
said became important because this cam
paign in Ohio would have bearing upon
the campaign of next year, he said that
the reasons became stronger why the Re-
publican party should prevail in this con-
test Referring to Mr.. Powell's sugges-
tion that the Republican State Committee
had been organized with the purpose OF
wrecking Senator Sherman's Presidential
train, he said Mr.. Powell might dis
miss all such fears, so far as Ohio
Republicans are concerned. For,
said he, Senator Sherman has been
put on sure train with free pass in his
own name, and l do not know of any one
from the river to the lake, who wishes to
take it from him. John Sherman has no
such wreckers to avoid as Allen G.. Thur
man can give an account Of. He devoted
considerable space to President Cleveland,
but denied that he had made any personal
attack upon him. He had to deal with
his public acts, aud while it was not to
be expected that Republicans would be
pleased with the Presidents course upon
questions on which the parties are at issue
there were other matters in which their
lust expectations have been disappointed.
ABUSING THR PRESIDENT.
The Republicans did not expect that
President Cleveland would make false
pretense of ignoring the just claims of his
party, except in so far az they could be
recognized through the policy of removing
only offensive partisans, and by adhering
to such a course under the claim of civil
service reform should bring upon that
worthy cause, as he has done, an odium
that set it back for years in public appre-
citation, TO the great detriment Of
the whole country. He claimed
there was still greater disappointment
in the revival by President Cleveland Of
the animosities of the war which had
almost died out In proof of which he
cited the application of the epithets,
tramps, paupers, pension grabbers, and
the like, by politicians and political news
papers. He charged that Cleveland was
responsible for this, because his policy had
been to make il appear that after all there
was nothing seriously wrong about the re-
belliOn